On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 10:34 +0530, Sanket Shah wrote:
Guys, the average user doesnt even know firefox or others are alternatives to shitty Internet Explorer. How do u expect them to make their way through linux? If u use linux, U HAV TO SPEND TIME TO SUIT UR TASTE.
It is the other way round. linux works exactly as I want not as some handful of stupid developres sitting in redman street office, who can't even settle the virus problems even after 30 odd years of a solution being available in linux.
Linux needs a large investment initially in terms of setting up time, which unfortunately people don't have in the professional world, but they hav money. An avg MBA grad who gets laptops from college or buys one usually has abt 8-10 hrs at home daily at max (may be some weekends too). When do you think they will sit around for hrs and make their linux flavor set to their taste buds???
Rubbish! I train people in just a few hours in a single day for using linux. What are you talking about? I think you are refering to command line not GUI. Office for average users work the way they are used to work, vlc, firefox absolutely perfect. all other things are perfect too. I know many trainners, dealers and self lerned people who would migrate you successfully to linux in a day. all that is different is the file system and the menus to a certain extent. installation, well it is much easier for people who do setups on other OS and for those who don't do an installation themselves, it is no question in the first place.
And, there is the notion, "Free OS?" "Better than Windows?" "Surely they are bluffing." "Linux is so complex." blah blah blah... People are so used to the idea of paying for software that they dun fathom the idea of linux. Very few actually pay here fr software proven by rampant piracy. They are so used to using cracked stuff and trial versions, that free software seems impossible... Is it others notion or your notion. If I say windows is complex, how will it sound to you?
I really find windows extremly complex and confusing. And I know many others coming from windows to linux who had the same feeling. It is the mindset of "microsoft = god for IT " by some people who just want to bring fassion in IT industry. I feel windows is nothing more than a fassion of saying "I use some thing which is popular". Saying that linux is complex is a rotton sterio type comment.
Happy hacking. Krishnakant.